Apple to build 26M fifth-gen iPhones in second half of 2011
Citing supply chain sources in Taiwan, DigiTimes reported on Monday that Apple has increased its iPhone orders for the rest of the year by between 12 percent and 13 percent. Originally, the company planned to build about 50 million of its hot-selling smartphone.
With more than 56 million units said to be in the pipeline in the remainder of 2011, between 25.5 million and 26 million of those are said to be the anticipated fifth-generation model.
iPhone 5 orders for the third quarter of the calendar year are said to be between 5.5 million and 6 million units, a number that was adjusted slightly lower. But orders in the fourth quarter have allegedly been raised from 14 million units to more than 20 million.
The remainder of Apple's 56-million-plus handsets will be the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4, including the CDMA model compatible with Verizon's network. Together, those devices will exceed 20 million in the third quarter and just 8 million in the fourth quarter.
In all, Apple is said to be prepared to build 95 million iPhone units in calendar 2011. So far, the company has reported sales of 20.34 million units and 18.65 million iPhones in the first two quarters of calendar 2011.
The massive iPhone build numbers said to be in the works for the remainder of 2011 would put Apple in spitting distance of the 100 million milestone in a 12-month span. During his company's quarterly earnings conference call in July, Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook revealed that more than 222 million iOS devices had been sold since the first iPhone launched in 2007.
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Only 6 million iPhone 5s in calendar Q3? That seems low, if that's true we'll be looking at another mother of all backlogs in the first month after launch. Unless we're really not getting the iPhone 5 till October, then it might make sense.
Also interesting that this rumour seems to be implying that the 3GS will still be in production in Q4, I was expecting that they'd start to limit supply this quarter and kill it when they launch the 5. There have been rumours that supply was already being shut off for the 3GS.
http://9to5mac.com/2011/07/30/iphone...ion-this-fall/
Interesting, figures seem really low for this year. I had hoped that Apple was waiting until October so that, for once, they would actually have a reasonable amount of stock on hand for launch day.
I guess it's going to be the usual Apple launch then.
Interesting math for those numbers... I would really love to see how 26M is "more than half" of 56M?!?!
Since everyone knows that the fifth gen iPhone is coming out, why doesn't Apple announce what all it will be able to do and when we can get it? I realize they have to keep their cards close to their vest, but seems like all of this chatter about the new phone would already be slowing current iPhone sales. I'm sure there are people not upgrading their current phones and waiting for the 5. If they announced it today, I'd preorder it yesterday...that is how bad I want the new one
Since everyone knows
Because they don't. And that's not how Apple works. Google "Osborne 1".
No, not really.
Here. And on MacRumors. THAT'S IT. No one else really cares at all. Tech aficionados are few and far between. 90% of iPhone users couldn't care less (and don't have a clue) about the new model.